Designing and Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2016

This course provides experienced Exchange Server administrators with the knowledge to design and implement an Exchange Server 2016 messaging environment. The course focuses on students learning how to design and configure advanced components in an Exchange Server 2016 deployment.

Optional Add-Ons

Overview

This course provides experienced Exchange Server administrators with the knowledge to design and implement an Exchange Server 2016 messaging environment. Students will learn how to design and configure advanced components in an Exchange Server 2016 deployment such as site resiliency, advanced security, compliance, archiving, and discovery solutions. In addition, students will learn about coexistence with other Exchange organizations or Exchange Online, and migration from previous versions of Exchange Server. The course will provide guidelines, best practices, and considerations that will help students optimize their Exchange Server deployment.

Audience profile

This course is intended for IT professionals who are experienced messaging administrators, messaging architects, or consultants. This course is designed for professionals in an enterprise environment who are responsible for designing and deploying Exchange Server 2016 solutions, including environments that contain previous versions of Exchange Server or Exchange Online. Students are expected to have experience with Exchange Server 2016 or previous versions of Exchange Server.

This course is also intended as preparation material for IT professionals who are looking to take the 70-345: Designing and Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 exam as part of the requirement for the MCSE: Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 certification.

At course completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Plan for Exchange Server deployments.

Plan and deploy Exchange Server 2016 Mailbox services.

Plan and deploy message transport.

Plan and deploy client access.

Design and implement high availability.

Maintain Exchange Server 2016.

Design messaging security.

Design and implement message retention.

Design messaging compliance.

Design and implement messaging coexistence.

Upgrade to Exchange Server 2016.

Plan a hybrid Exchange Server deployment.

Module 1: Planning Exchange Server 2016 deployments

This module explains the requirements and considerations for planning an Exchange Server deployment.

Lessons

New features in Exchange Server 2016

Gathering business requirements for an Exchange Server 2016 deployment

Planning for an Exchange Server deployment

Designing a Unified Messaging (UM) deployment

Lab : Planning Exchange Server 2016 deployments

Evaluating an existing messaging infrastructure

Identifying requirements

Discussion: Deployment design for Exchange Server 2016

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the new features in Exchange Server 2016.

Describe how to gather business requirements for an Exchange Server 2016 deployment.

This module explains how to plan and implement mail routing internally from and to the Internet, and transport-related tasks in the organization.

Lessons

Designing message routing

Designing transport services

Designing the message-routing perimeter

Designing and implementing transport compliance

Lab : Planning and deploying message transport

Planning for a redundant and secure message transport

Planning for transport compliance

Implementing transport compliance

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design message routing.

Design transport services.

Design message routing in a perimeter network.

Design and implement transport compliance.

Module 4: Planning and deploying client access

This module explains how to plan for client connectivity and client access in Exchange Server 2016. This module also describes how to implement Microsoft Office Online Server, and the coexistence of SharePoint 2016 with Exchange.

Lessons

Planning for Exchange Server 2016 clients

Planning for client access

Planning and implementing Office Online Server

Planning and implementing coexistence of SharePoint 2016 with Exchange